Spiritual Healing Death SKU: RR71941 Barcode: 781676719419 20.00 £20.00 Genre: Metal / Classic Rock Label: Relapse Released Date: 29th September 2014 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info Reissue of Death’s landmark “Spiritual Healing” album on vinyl. 1990’s Spiritual Healing wrapped up a trilogy of Death LPs delineating the birth of a genre and featuring the childishly provocative splatter-gore cover art of the ever-popular Ed Repka; artwork that, as the years wear on, has increasingly undermined the revolutionary musical accomplishments contained within all three of the legendary Floridian death metal band’s first studio efforts. But, more importantly and accurately, Spiritual Healing closed the second chapter of Death’s career (the first having consisted of an unusually protracted self-discovery demo period), thus setting the stage for leader Chuck Schuldiner’s imminent creative peak. From a personnel perspective (always an intriguing subplot of any Death album), Schuldiner had only recently parted ways with longtime accomplice Rick Rozz and replaced him with a far more refined and versatile shredder in Atlanta-based guitar prodigy James Murphy. After initially turning down the position, Murphy quickly realized his error and relocated to Orlando, where he joined Schuldiner and the returning Terry Butler/Bill Andrews rhythm section in time to begin composing, rehearsing, and recording Spiritual Healing at old, reliable Morrisound Studios with producer Scott Burns in the fall of 1989. Released in February of 1990 through Combat Records, the album was met with surprisingly mixed reviews. On the one hand stood the more conservative, extreme metal contingent that resented the album’s sacrifice of sheer musical savagery in the name of cleaner production, improved musicianship, and evident songwriting refinements; and, on the other, the more forward-thinking listeners who embraced it for all of the very same reasons. Love them or loathe them, though, brand new Death standards like “Altering the Future”, “Low Life,” and the masterful title track (which even contained a brief keyboard part performed by the band’s manager) showcased consistently intriguing riff sequences and time changes to go with much more abundant melodic parts and solos traded between Schuldiner and Murphy. Much of remaining material was also rife with individual highlights, but, admittedly, some songs did suffer from lingering bouts of sophomoric lyrics and gratuitously violent concepts (see “Living Monstrosity,” “Killing Spree”). It’s also important to point out that there was still a thrash-derived tone to Death’s guitars — not to mention thrash-based songwriting elements — that would finally vanish when the group adopted the thicker sound and lower tunings now seen as the prototypical American death metal sound for their “great leap forward”: 1991’s seminal Human album. It’s really only in comparison to this history-making achievement and Schuldiner’s subsequent masterpieces that Spiritual Healing is justifiably diminished, because in every other sense, it’s a hell of an album that reflects what was probably Death’s most crucial transition phase, to boot. [Spiritual Healing was re-released on LP in 2014.] ~ Eduardo Rivadavia Artist Death Genre Metal / Classic Rock Label Relapse Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country United Kingdom Track Listings 1. Living Monstrosity 2. Altering the Future 3. Defensive Personalities 4. Within the Mind 5. Spiritual Healing 6. Low Life 7. Genetic Reconstruction 8. 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